Author: kfultz

It’s that glorious time of year– graduate school decision season! You submitted your carefully-crafted applications to the social science or humanities programs of your dreams back in December or January, and waited through a long and frigid winter (okay, not really), and finally– FINALLY– got some good news in the form of “fat envelopes” earlier […]

TL;DR: Don’t be the jerk that takes pictures of random strangers while you’re traveling. First of all, it’s kind of rude. The political and social history of Guatemala, combined with the things that make photographs so unique, creates a really morally and practically complicated situation around taking pictures of people. But it’s totally okay to take pictures […]

I have to admit, I love charts. They thoroughly appeal to my obsessive organizational side. That said, my research has been completely devoid of chartage. Until now. As part of my summer Mellon Public Humanities Fellowship, I’m working on a shiny new chart to track the 80+ consultas comunitarias held in Guatemala to date. I will grudgingly acknowledge […]

It must be a holdover from years and years of having a wide-open “summer vacation”, but when April rolls around each year I still get the feeling that I’ll somehow have SO MUCH more free time once the semester is over. And I immediately get started filling it with projects and trips and goals, of […]

I often reminisce about my first three years of grad school, when I was taking classes and had “all that time” to read. Here’s a reality check, in the form of an infographic. I’m exhausted just reading it.

A friend posted this humorous take on the Superbowl to Facebook this morning, which introduced me to this nifty series Slate is doing. The idea is to write about current events in the US as if they had happened/ were happening in a foreign country– using the tropes and language that the US media often uses […]

I just read a for-fun book that played with gender Ursula K. Le Guin-style (it’s okay to talk about her on an anthro blog, because she’s the daughter of an anthropologist, and is even participating in a multidisciplinary conference organized by an anthropologist. Right? Right.). Le Guin uses all male pronouns in The Left Hand of […]

I conduct field research in Guatemala, an exceedingly beautiful country that is home to many incredibly kind and generous people, who largely have great senses of humor, to boot. When I tell Americans who happen to have visited Guatemala where I do my research, they’re invariably jealous. They’re likely thinking of the charming town of […]

A friend of mine recently shared this blog post on Facebook, which summarizes a longer essay that argues that climate change activism is a “leaderless movement.” This idea has been popping up on my radar a lot lately. Perhaps it’s just because I’m immersed in dissertating and tend to interpret just about everything I read […]

I’m working on a dissertation chapter right now that looks in part at ways people build solidarity within social movements. The general consensus in the literature I’ve read is that solidarity depends on a bond of real or imagined empathy. So, in order to get someone to want to help you or support your cause– […]